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I'm sitting here tearing my hair out right now. It turns out that the Postal Service lost, not one, but two different forms I sent, one to each of my top choices for college. I've had the forms resent, and it looks like one of the forms was lost again. It's like the Postal Service, which is normally moderately reliable, is trying to fuck up my chances of getting into a good college.

I've contacted the schools, and let them know what is going on, but I'm still pissed. If this screws me over for college, I'm gonna be so angry.

So... Generalites, let's hear your stories of being fucked over by your country's postal service, or perhaps your horor stories about college. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who keeps having documents critical to them lost by the USPS or one of it's equivalents.

I abominate the US Postal Service. They've lost: My W2 forms for 2006, my car registration stickers, several checks sent to pay bills, and a change of address form.

Nothing yet... yet.

I abominate the US Postal Service. They've lost: My W2 forms for 2006, my car registration stickers, several checks sent to pay bills, and a change of address form.

Maybe everything else is at your old address?

I abominate the US Postal Service. They've lost: My W2 forms for 2006, my car registration stickers, several checks sent to pay bills, and a change of address form.

Well damn. I'm not sure if it's reassuring to know that it isn't a vendetta against me, or if I would have preferred the plot. ;)

Luckily, most colleges are doing faxes now, too, so I'm having my counselors fax the forms, hopefully cutting out the USPS, and reducing the chance of them being lost.

I'm sitting here tearing my hair out right now. It turns out that the Postal Service lost, not one, but two different forms I sent, one to each of my top choices for college. I've had the forms resent, and it looks like one of the forms was lost again. It's like the Postal Service, which is normally moderately reliable, is trying to fuck up my chances of getting into a good college.

I've contacted the schools, and let them know what is going on, but I'm still pissed. If this screws me over for college, I'm gonna be so angry.

So... Generalites, let's hear your stories of being fucked over by your country's postal service, or perhaps your horor stories about college. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who keeps having documents critical to them lost by the USPS or one of it's equivalents.
the post office lost 5 of my rent checks. so now I go to the realtors and pay it in person. the same with my bills. I go to their offices and make those payments.

the post office lost 5 of my rent checks. so now I go to the realtors and pay it in person. the same with my bills. I go to their offices and make those payments.

5? Damn... Was that in a row, or over time?

There was a case in Britain where a birthday card took 14 years to reach someone. That's Royal Mail for you.

This is why I never send important mail through the post office. If I can't take it in person, I'll sometimes send a document as a package through UPS...seriously.

We really need to change the law to allow private mail delivery; interestingly, the Post Office's package delivery is remarkably efficient due to competition with private delivery companies like UPS and DHL. I think it's time to do the same with mail to get some accountability in to that disgracefully inefficient monopoly.

5? Damn... Was that in a row, or over time?

over time. tho 2 was one month then the next.

My mailman chases me, yells incoherently and bites me on my ankles. It's why I carry lunch meat in my pocket, so I can distract him with it when he comes by.

This is why I never send important mail through the post office. If I can't take it in person, I'll sometimes send a document as a package through UPS...seriously.

We really need to change the law to allow private mail delivery; interestingly, the Post Office's package delivery is remarkably efficient due to competition with private delivery companies like UPS and DHL. I think it's time to do the same with mail to get some accountability in to that disgracefully inefficient monopoly.

At this point, I agree entirely. I mean, if it was once, I might have brushed it off, but now it's up to three times in less than a year, and absolutely critical documents. At this point, I'm not trusting the postal service with any important document, ever again.

What makes you think you're so special? The US hates everyone :p

I don't know, I've mostly had the opposite problem. They keep delivering me things I don't want... although there is a certain satisfaction that comes with destroying pre-approved credit card offers. And millions and millions of personalized address labels I've been buried in from different charitable organizations begging me for money that, as a college student, I don't have. But no, I've never (to the best of my knowledge) had anything important lost in the mail. I've had worse luck with automated phone systems, which seem to send me around in endless circles and devour my messages alive. :headbang:

We really need to change the law to allow private mail delivery; interestingly, the Post Office's package delivery is remarkably efficient due to competition with private delivery companies like UPS and DHL.

I thought they had a deal with one of the companies to do package delivery.

They lost the thank you's for our wedding but that was 25 years ago.

If there is something important send it certified. If it's REALLY important send it Registered. With Registered the last person that signs for it owns it. If it's lost s/he personally pays for it. Not much registered gets lost. Banks send cash that way.

I abominate the US Postal Service. They've lost: My W2 forms for 2006, my car registration stickers, several checks sent to pay bills, and a change of address form.

Abominate?

Abominate?

Yes.

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abominate \uh-BOM-uh-nayt\, transitive verb:
To hate in the highest degree; to detest intensely; to loathe; to abhor.

I had no wish to study or learn anything, and as for Latin, I abominated it.
-- Charles Tyng, Before the Wind

Sir Laurence, he said, smiling wanly, "I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!"
-- John Lahr (editor), The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

Abominate comes from Latin abominari, "to deprecate as a bad omen, to hate, to detest," from ab- + omen, "an omen."

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I have lived in my house for 4 years, I still don't get about half of my mail, the mailman only brings it once a week because he "doesn't want to walk that far" and he never picks up outgoing mail.

I have complained 49 times, I am going to complain again today, so that will make 50.

apparently most of the mail I don't get has been going to a house 4 miles away, they dropped a trash bag of it off a few days ago......all unopened (or at least I hope that's all of it)

the rest of my mail seems to go to an address I had 6 years ago in another state, because every once in a while I get a piece with my current address marked out, my old address written in pencil, a note in marker that says NATA (not at this address) and a stamp that says I moved and my current address written on usually in pen. This has happened 5 times in the last 4 years, and it's always junk mail........why waste all that time for a sales flyer 6 months old!?:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

I hate the USPS. I think they are trying to make me buy a post office box. :eek:

I've...not had a single problem with the mail service whatsoever. It can be a wee bit slow occasionally, but that's more due to the weather we've been having. Our post office is supremely reliable. Not a single thing missed from any of our mail, nor anything sent back out gone astray. :)

My mailman chases me, yells incoherently and bites me on my ankles. It's why I carry lunch meat in my pocket, so I can distract him with it when he comes by.

That sounds like a dog...

I've...not had a single problem with the mail service whatsoever. It can be a wee bit slow occasionally, but that's more due to the weather we've been having. Our post office is supremely reliable. Not a single thing missed from any of our mail, nor anything sent back out gone astray. :)

You are a lucky, lucky person, and I despise you to the core for your luck. :mad:

:P

That sounds like a dog...

Whoa.... dude...


wait...


if he's the dog... wait...


I'm gonna blow your mind...

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/port_lofi.cfm/sound_iid.62611

then maybe...


like in the Universe...


I'm the mailman...


Damn.

That sounds like a dog...

That would be the idea, I presume, as a man bites dog story or something.

Kinda Sensible People: Oh, it's not just my luck, it's my entire family's luck. My parents in their entire lives have never had a single problem with their mail. Ever.

...

Though in my dad's case at least it might have been due to the fact that his father was a mailman...

I have no problem with the USPS, UK on the other hand..

I thought they had a deal with one of the companies to do package delivery.

I'm not sure of the specifics behind it, actually. I do know, however, that it is affiliated with the Post Office in some way.

Kinda Sensible People: Oh, it's not just my luck, it's my entire family's luck. My parents in their entire lives have never had a single problem with their mail. Ever.

...

Though in my dad's case at least it might have been due to the fact that his father was a mailman...

I see, you're a member of the mailman illuminati!

Though in my dad's case at least it might have been due to the fact that his father was a mailman...

How did he get mail?

How did he get mail?

What do you mean?

And I am not part of any mailman Illuminatis. My grandfather ran the postal service for the entire Denver region for a while, but that was it for my family's involvement in the postal service.

What do you mean?

And I am not part of any mailman Illuminatis. My grandfather ran the postal service for the entire Denver region for a while, but that was it for my family's involvement in the postal service.

Well, who delivers your granpa's mail?

Well, who delivers your granpa's mail?

My grandfather doesn't get mail, because he has been dead for close to two decades.

And I am not part of any mailman Illuminatis. My grandfather ran the postal service for the entire Denver region for a while, but that was it for my family's involvement in the postal service.


You can deny it, but the proof is before us. You can tell us the truth. You are really a part of the international mailman illuminati. That's okay.

And by okay, I mean, you're a harbinger of evil, and you will need to be exterminated before the world can move on. :p

The Laws of Postal Delivery:


Love letters, business contracts, and money you are due always arrive three weeks late.
Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.